The Japanese government on Monday ordered messaging app provider Line Corp to take measures to properly protect customers’ information after such data were found accessible by a Chinese affiliate without user consent.
The administrative guidance, which also requires a report from Line by late May, was issued as the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry judged the app operator failed to provide a sufficient surveillance system to protect the “secrets of communications” as required by law.
Line said in a statement it takes the government’s order seriously and vowed to “regain users’ trust by implementing the appropriate reforms.”
The move…
